Biography Agnes Abbot

Known for her paintings of New England, Agnes Abbot also traveled West
where she painted western scenes, spending time in Colorado Springs in
1929, and in Taos in 1940. She worked in both watercolor and oils,
and between 1927 and 1974, had fourteen exhibitions at Wellesley
College in Massachusetts.

She was born in Potsdam, Germany and
grew up in Berlin, where she studied at the Berlin Academy. From
1906 to 1913, she spent her summers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and
in 1917, she settled with her family in the Boston area and attended
the School of Fine Arts and Crafts in Boston, graduating in 1921.
Her teachers there were C. Howard Walker, Aldro Hibbard, Charles
Woodbury, and Katherine Child. She s
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